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The CAT 2025 exam is expected to take place on November 30, 2025, organized by IIM Kozhikode in online mode across 155 cities. Its scores will be accepted by 21 IIMs and over 1,200 B-schools across India for admission into postgraduate management programs. The official notification is likely to be released on the IIMCAT website (iimcat.ac.in) by the end of July 2025, with registration starting in the first week of August 2025. The notification will provide key details, including the exam date, registration schedule, admit card release, and result announcement, enabling candidates to plan their preparations and complete all exam-related steps on time.

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CAT 2025 Eligibility Criteria

 

  • The candidate must possess a bachelor’s degree with a minimum 50 percent aggregate or equivalent CGPA (45 percent aggregate for SC, ST and PWD/DA category) from a recognized board or university to participate in CAT 2025

  • The candidate must have completed a professional degree (CA/ CS/ ICWA) with the required percentage

  • Candidates appearing for the final year of bachelor’s degree/equivalent qualification or awaiting results are also eligible to apply for the CAT exam

  • As per the legal requirements, 15 per cent of the seats are reserved for Scheduled Caste (SC) and 7.5 per cent for Scheduled Tribe (ST) candidates.

  • 27 percent of the seats are reserved for Other Backward Classes candidates belonging to the “non-creamy” layer (NC-OBC).

  • Up to 10 percent of the seats are reserved for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) candidates.

  • “Person with Benchmark Disability” means a person with not less than forty percent (40 percent) of a specified disability. The categories of disability are: Blindness and low vision, Deaf and hard of hearing, Locomotor disability including cerebral palsy, leprosy cured, dwarfism, acid attack victims and muscular dystrophy, Autism, intellectual disability, specific learning disability and mental illness, Multiple disabilities from amongst persons under clauses (a) to (d), Other ‘specified disabilities’ mentioned in ‘The Schedule’ of the RPwD Act 2016.